Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University; Lora Mavrouli, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

implementing a comprehensiveproblem-based learning exercise. This paper is to share the open-ended industrial engineeringstudent project with others in the engineering education field. It chronicles the project’s design aswell as feedback from the instructor and students.The student project assignment is affectionately called “The Cookie Project” which is inspiredby a real-life example from a previous capstone project. A local gourmet ice cream company hasbuilt a cookie production plant next to their ice cream plant. This cookie plant makes homemadestyle cookies that are transported next door to be made into signature ice cream sandwiches.These tasty treats are sold at the retail ice cream shops, mostly as take home goodies.Students taking the course